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ByJim McKelvey

This story appears in theMarch 2020issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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I am an entrepreneur, but I am also a glassblower, and every glassblower has amentor.

In fact, we all have the same one:Lino Tagliapietra. Glassblowing is the only profession I know where everyone agrees on who the best practitioner is. Nobody knows who the bestaccountantor mortician or loan shark is, but the world's best glassblower is Lino.

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